SDCC Liaison Meeting

Thursday 5 Jan 2023, 14:00 → 15:00 US/Eastern

3-192 (Bldg 510)

Kevin Casella (SDCC), Saroj Kandasamy (BNL), Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))

Monthly meetings between SDCC staff and Liaisons. Zoom connecting details are given below:

https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1616916563

By phone:       

+1 669 254 5252 US (San Jose)
+1 646 828 7666 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 161 691 6563

Thursday January 5, 2023 Liaison Meeting Minutes

 

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/18022/

In addition to the uploaded presentation materials, the following QA and discussion was noted:

 

(We must delay hybrid meetings until COVID mask restrictions are lifted again)

Experimental Computing

• CrowdStrike will replace ORDO, ETA ~3/2023, concerns about delaying past start of the run
• CrowdStrike already deployed by NSLS/ITD

 

IT Fabric

• ~30 minute HPSS maintenance required ETA 2/2023

 

IT Services

• CVMFS kernel panic issue sPHENIX cleaned up 4K files

 

Tools and Services

• upcoming new VMs for PanDA DB may replace existing VMs

 

Any Other Business:

• overlap of PHENIX/sPHENIX, but we will maintain 2 groups no plan to merge user accounts

 

 

14:00 → 14:05 Facility News & Announcements

Speakers: Eric LANCON (BNL), Jerome LAURET (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Tony Wong (Brookhaven National Lab (Physics Department))

14:05 → 14:35 Facility Operations

• Network
• Data Center Infrastructure
• Experimental Support
• IT Fabric
• IT Services
• Services & Tools

Speakers: Mr Alexandr Zaytsev (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)), Christopher Hollowell (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dmitry Arkhipkin (SDCC / BNL), Imran Latif, Jason Smith (RACF/SDCC), Jerome LAURET (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Vincent Garonne

Experimental Computing

IT Fabric

IT Services Update - Liaison_Staff Meeting.pdf

tools-and-services-summary-2023-01-05.pdf